‘British-US policy to fight ISIS isn’t going to work’

Iraqi Shiite militia fighters hold the Islamic State flag as they celebrate after breaking the siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants, September 1, 2014. (Reuters/Youssef Boudlal) / Reuters

Obama-Cameron plan to defeat ISIS is inherently flawed and will fail, causing only more deaths, more chaos and more religious wars, Lawrence Freeman, editor of the Executive Intelligence Review magazine, told RT.

RT:David Cameron has condemned thekillingof the UK citizen by ISIS as an
"act of pure evil." What action can we expect from the UK
government?

Lawrence Freeman: The problem is that it is an
act of evil and ISIS has to be defeated, but the British and
American plan from David Cameron and President Obama will not
succeed. It is inherently flawed and will fail, and will cause
more deaths, more chaos, more deaths and killing in the Middle
East, in the Gulf countries. It does not identify the fact that
the Saudi Arabian Empire together with the British Empire have
been allowing ISIS to be funded and deployed.

And now there is a very big movement inside the US Congress to
declassify 28 pages kept secret since 2002 on the role of the
Saudi Arabia in supporting the 9/11 attack against the US. If
that comes out, that will blow open this whole phony alliance
that Obama and Cameron have with Saudi Arabia.

RT:Could this push the UK government to
join the US-led military campaign against Islamic State?

LF: The campaign that Obama is leading is not
going to happen, is not going to work. There will be bombings,
but bombings do not defeat an enemy. Also if President Obama
violates Syrian territory and bombs Syria, that is a violation of
international law. The people who are supposed to be doing the
training and are based in Saudi Arabia will not be sufficient.

Yes, there has to be an alliance of sovereign nations that work
together to defeat ISIS and it has to include economic
development. The Obama-British plan will fail as it is badly
constructed. And Obama right now is violating the US Constitution
by taking the US to war without approval - explicit approval - of
the Congress. And this is causing uproar in the Congress itself.
Yes, we must defeat ISIS, but it will not be defeated by this
British-American policy right now which will only make the
matters worse.

RT:What do you think is behind the timing
of this video? Is it linked to John Kerry's efforts to gain
support for military action against Islamic State in the
Mid-East?

LF: No. You have a group at the core of
fundamentalist Wahhabiates [sic] which have been armed by
elements in Saudi Arabia for decades. These people have to be
destroyed, they are evil, and they are carrying out their evil
campaign. The problem is we do not have any leadership, real
political leadership in the US, and we're being pulled around by
Cameron and others to carry out a policy. Think about it, think
if we bomb Syria. What would be the consequences? There would be
more wars. This would further destabilize the Assad government.

What if the Assad government falls? Then ISIS can take parts of
Syria. There is a release that came out on September 14 from the
Huffington Post that the so-called moderate
Syrian Free Army is working directly in an alliance with ISIS.
This is well-known and documented, so how can this plan succeed
if the Saudis are involved and the so-called allies are working
directly with ISIS? It is not going to succeed, and you're going
to see more deaths, more chaos and more religious wars until we
impeach Obama and release the 28 pages which expose the Saudi
relationship.

RT:Looking at this from the point of view
of the terrorists, what is the strategy behind these execution
videos?

LF: The mindset of these terrorists is
destruction, it is chaos, it is killing people. You don't have to
look for a particular strategy. They want to bring the world back
into an unorganized, medieval order and the problem is that they
are being supported by supposed allies of ours in Great Britain
and Saudi Arabia. So they are going to do whatever they can to
destabilize the world and we're going along with it. So we have
to cut out our own stupidity and force our [US] president to
carry out a policy, although our president at this point should
probably be removed from office because he's not going to carry
out a policy to defeat ISIS.

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